Medicine and dogmatism in "Neguijon" by Fernando Iwasaki
This article examines how in the novel Neguijon of the Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki, medicine serves as an epistemological symbol through which a skeptical conception of knowledge is expressed. The basically speculative and even reflexive quality of medicine from the 16th and 17th centuries woul...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | Perú |
| Institución: | Academia Peruana de la Lengua |
| Repositorio: | Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.apl.org.pe:article/96 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/boletinapl/article/view/96 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Philosophy and literature Epistemology Skepticism Fernando Iwasaki epistemological Methapor Filosofía y literatura Epistemología Escepticismo Metáfora epistemológica |
| Sumario: | This article examines how in the novel Neguijon of the Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki, medicine serves as an epistemological symbol through which a skeptical conception of knowledge is expressed. The basically speculative and even reflexive quality of medicine from the 16th and 17th centuries would be both a metaphor of dogmatism which dominated the Spanish and Hispano-American societies from the Counter-Reformation, as well as the dogmatism that tempts humans at any time and place. |
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